Tips 'n tricks related to CAx and PLM software and hardware. Primary posts are about Solid Edge, Insight and Teamcenter data management but there's smatterings of other "stuff" that as a hacker I feel is handy to get your job done. I'm a Siemens PLM Software employee. All opinions posted are my own and do not represent those of my employer. If you are looking for dish commentary, not gonna happen here. This is a technical how-to get stuff done better and faster blog.

Changing Solid Edge Modeling Standard and Default Templates

The preference for the Solid Edge modeling standard is defined when you first install Solid Edge:

This setting cannot be easily changed once Solid Edge is installed without some hacking. The user finally uninstalled Solid Edge and re-installed Solid Edge to his desired modeling and template standards.

There is however a way to avoid uninstalling and re-installing Solid Edge by changing the registry keys and manually copy the default template files. To manually change the Solid Edge modeling standard and default templates:

However, this is a manual process and like all manual processes can be incorrectly implemented. Also, for some of us (support engineers!), we need to quickly change modeling standards and default templates; so how to change the Solid Edge modeling standard quickly without all the manual editing?

Based on the original poster’s question and my own personal need, I wrote a PowerShell script to allow you to programmatically change the Solid Edge modeling standard. This script is available from my GitHub site (along with other Solid Edge tweaks if you haven’t checked it out yet!).

As with all my scripts YMMV and they are unsupported but if you have any issues or requests with the script, please post them below in the Comments. Hopefully this script will be of use to some of you...